Today’s image links back to a series of three Posts that I uploaded earlier this year about The Dom – Switzerland’s Highest Mountain – the central summit of the Mischabel Mountains. Click the link to go to the first in that series of three Posts.

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This is in, my opinion, one of the most dramatic views of the Mischabel range of mountains that form part of the horseshoe of peaks that encircle the village of Saas Fee in the Valais Alps. Viewed from Saas Fee itself the view of these mountains is so foreshortened that one loses any idea of their vast scale.

Today’s view is from Almagelleralp, a wonderful high valley on the opposite side of the main Saastal valley off which Saas Fee itself sits in a hanging valley or shelf. From this viewpoint, girdled by a band of low-level cloud, the range can be seen for what it is: a formidable majestic ridge of mountains.

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Hi - I'm a UK-based photographer who started out 45+ years ago as a lover of landscapes, inspired by my love of outdoor pursuits: skiing, walking and climbing. Now retired, I seldom leave home without a camera and I find images in unexpected places and from different genres. I work on the premise that Photography is Art and that creativity is dependent on the cultivation of 'A Seeing Eye'.

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